8 p.m.: Princeton University public lecture by George Packer, author of The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq, on “The New Liberalism”; McCosh Hall 50, Princeton University.

Friday, February 6

10 a.m.: Goldilocks and the Three Bears; Off-Broadstreet Theatre, Hopewell. Also Saturday at 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m.

4:30 p.m.: Talk by Dan Gunn, American University of Paris, on From Spasm to Indigence: The Writer’s Duty as Revealed Through Samuel Beckett’s Letters; Stewart Theater, Lewis Center for the Arts, 185 Nassau Street. Free.

5 p.m.: Rock Band and Guitar Hero Jam; Princeton Public Library.

7:30 p.m.: “Write on Witherspoon Street,” readings of original prose and poetry by area high school students; Solley Theater, Paul Robeson Center for the Arts, 102 Witherspoon Street. Free.

7:30 p.m.: Open Mic Nite; Chicklet Books, Princeton Shopping Center.

8 p.m.: Man of La Mancha; Kelsey Theatre, Mercer County Community College. Also Saturday at 2 and 8 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m.

Wednesday, February 11

4:30 p.m.: Talk, “Restoring American Military Power,” by Larry Korb, former Assistant Secretary of Defense and Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, and Max Bergmann, Deputy Policy Director at the National Security Network; Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall, Princeton University.